Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.
Interpretation
Time may help alleviate pain, but it doesn't truly heal emotional wounds.
This quote by Chris Marker explores the complex relationship between time and emotional pain. It suggests that while time can soften the edges of hurt caused by separation, it cannot completely heal the wounds associated with deep emotional loss. The passage highlights the idea that the impact of separation lingers within us, unaffected by the passage of time, leading to a disembodied sense of loss and desire that endures even as the pain shifts over time.
In practice
In a speech about coping with loss, one might say, 'As Chris Marker poignantly stated, time heals everything - except wounds.'
I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
Nothing sorts out memories from ordinary moments. It is only later that they claim remembrance, when they show their scars.
If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
You bring me the deepest joy that can be felt by a man whose invincible belief is that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will unite, not to destroy, but to build, and that the future will belong to those who will have done most for suffering humanity.
There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to think there are no living beings out there. Just chalk... or fire. Only this one is straining away, straining away all the time to make something of itself. Strain's so bad that every sixteen hours everybody lies down and gets a rest.
Memoir is not an act of history but an act of memory, which is innately corrupt.
Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. "No man is worth more than another, wherever he is from.
Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.
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